The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 22

And out came the two pretty boys, who quickly brought in the oak tables, spread the silken covers, and laid out all sorts of delicious dishes and refreshing drinks.

Who acts: two pretty boys · What happens: come, bring, spread, lay out, refresh, sort · To what, where: two pretty boys, oak tables, silken covers, sorts, drinks, delicious dishes

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two pretty boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 came	cc
2	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boys	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 boys	nummod
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boys	amod
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 brought	nsubj
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 brought	advmod
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boys	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 tables	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tables	det
14	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tables	compound
15	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spread	punct
17	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 covers	det
19	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 covers	amod
20	covers	cover	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spread	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laid	cc
23	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 spread	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 laid	compound:prt
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sorts	det
26	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 laid	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 dishes	case
28	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dishes	amod
29	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sorts	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 refreshing	cc
31	refreshing	refresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 laid	conj
32	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 refreshing	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past		the two pretty boys		out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme
2	bring	past	the two pretty boys		the oak tables	quickly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	spread	present		the silken covers			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cover=Theme
4	lay out	participle		all sorts of delicious dishes			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Result
5	refresh	gerund		drinks			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus drink=Experiencer
6	sort			delicious dishes			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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